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FLOWERS www.painters-online.co.uk 4 EXPLORE WATERCOLOUR 2020 Making changes Make alterations a part of your painting process – if you aren’t happy with your work, learn to adapt and modify it, by Vivienne Cawson Step 1 1 Gather together a selection of fabrics – mine are a handy informational guide to colour and tone, and I know I will want to incorporate the gold detail into the finished painting somewhere. 2 My palette contained indigo, green gold, new gamboge (all Winsor & Newton), ultramarine turquoise, moonglow, shadow violet (all Daniel Smith) and violet (White Nights). I also used some Neocolor II watercolour wax pastels, Stabilo Woody crayons in green and gold, and grey gouache. T his stem from a lovely white Phalaenopsis (moth orchid) looks stunning in one of my favourite little jugs. The contrast of the white flowers with the decorative pattern on the darker jug really works well. I selected a few fabrics that I thought might be useful as I didn’t really have a vision of a finished painting. I did know, however, that the format would be landscape.